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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Craft Your Business Change Delivery Process For Sustainable Business Agility

Implementation And Operation Methods: The EA Method Playbook

IT's traditional approach to delivering business change is broken. Siloed solution delivery projects struggle to keep up with the pace of business. Agile development, lean software, and business...

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Report:Architect For The Next Digital Decade

Vision: The EA Method Playbook

In the midst of continuing economic, political, competitive, and technological disruption over the next decade, your enterprise architecture (EA) practice will flounder unless it gains clear vision...

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Report:Build Your Stepwise Strategy For Business-Centered EA

Strategic Plan: The EA Method Playbook

This report describes the strategic plan of Forrester's EA method playbook — our set of high-value practices that enterprise architects should use to help their organizations plan, architect,...

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Report:Across All Vertical Industry Groups, The Majority Of SOA Users Are Expanding Its Use

SOA Satisfaction Is High; Usage Patterns Vary By Industry

Across Forrester's seven vertical industry groups, service-oriented architecture (SOA) penetration ranges from 75% among utilities and telecom enterprises to 49% for public sector enterprises....

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Report:SOA Is Far From Dead — But It Should Be Buried

Doing SOA Right Opens The Door To A Much Bigger Architecture Vision

Sparked by a tinderbox of economic jitters and technology backlash, a recent thread of industry discussion cries out, "SOA is dead!" Although many have had fun with the discussion, it is in fact...

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Report:Architectural Business Value: An Architect's Proper Contribution To Packaged Apps Selection

Using Forrester's TEI Methodology To Financially Value Architectural Concerns

If they do it right, enterprise architects can add tremendous value to their organization's selection of a packaged application solution (and other technology decisions). The key to success is to...

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Report:Taking The Fog Out Of Cloud Computing: Platform-As-A-Service

Begin Building PaaS Into Your Application Platform Strategy

As part of their application platform strategies, enterprise architects should become familiar with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings. PaaS is one of the multiple categories of offerings that...

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Report:SOA Policy Management: Vendors And Products

The Market Landscape For SOA Policy Management Infrastructure And Services

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy management is an important and emerging subset of SOA strategy, SOA governance, and SOA platform planning. Because SOA policy features and functions are...

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Report:Web Services Security Specifications: WS-Security Achieves Critical Mass Of User Adoption

Current use of WS-Security doubled over the past two years: Now 30% of enterprises pursuing service-oriented architecture (SOA) use WS-Security as part of their SOA and Web services security...

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Report:Establishing A Solid Architecture Foundation For SOA Policy Infrastructure

Plan To Extend Your SOA Platform With SOA Policy Management

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility to an SOA-based solution, and it requires coordinated use of features and functions from multiple types of...

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Report:Pursuing SOA In Hard Times

Adjusting Best Practices For SOA When Resources Are Tight

Big bang approaches to service-oriented architecture (SOA) are hard to justify at any time but near impossible to justify in hard times. Instead, you must tie SOA progress directly to current-day...

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Report:EA Pros: Must-Read Research In An Economic Downturn

Economists are debating the length and depth of the economic impact of the credit crunch and the October market meltdown. What can enterprise architects do to survive or — dare we think it...

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Report:Building A Strong SOA Policy Life Cycle

Integrate Policy Into Your SOA Governance And Service Life-Cycle Processes

Policy management builds added flexibility and business value to your strategy for service-oriented architecture (SOA). Achieving these benefits requires you to enhance your SOA processes and add new...

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Report:How To Get Started On SOA Policy Management

Increase Your SOA Strategy's Business And Technical Flexibility

Policy-based processing increases flexibility by allowing key business and technical decisions to be easily visible and changeable rather than being hard-coded into applications. With...

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Report:A Practical Definition Of "SOA Policy"

Reconciling Divergent Industry Perspectives On "Policy"

As service-oriented architecture (SOA) matures in the marketplace, SOA policy management will become an increasingly important aspect of SOA-based business and technical flexibility. However, the...

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Report:Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Enterprise Architects

Most architects now recognize that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is much more than Web services (WS) standards and better application integration. SOA continues to gain industry recognition as...

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Report:SOA Adoption: Technology Diversity Accelerators

The Technology Diversity Factors That Drive Earlier SOA Adoption

Although it is no surprise to say that technology diversity drives adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), Forrester's survey data shows patterns in the use of development platforms,...

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Report:SOA Adoption: Strong Similarities Across Verticals

SOA Penetration Rates Are Similar; The Differences Are In The Focus Of SOA Use

Across industry verticals, the rates of service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption among enterprises are more similar than they are different. Broad-based use of and plans for SOA indicate that...

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Report:How To Build Your SOA Platform

To Evolve An SOA Platform, Build From Tactical Needs Toward A Strategic Vision

Building an effective service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform requires cohesive integration of both new product categories, such as SOA repositories and enterprise service buses (ESBs), and...

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Report:Defining Your SOA Platform Strategy

Sorting Through The Confusion Of Overlapping SOA Functions And Features

Defining an SOA platform is not as simple as some in the industry make it out to be. Serious pursuit of service-oriented architecture (SOA) requires new and different characteristics in your...

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Report:SOA Adoption: Budgets Don't Matter Much

Although Adoption Patterns Differ, Firms With Budgets Of Varying Sizes Adopt SOA

IT organizations with small, medium, and large budgets are adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) in large numbers; this is true whether looking at overall IT budget, overall software budget,...

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Report:SOA Adoption: Many Firms Got Started In 2007

SOA Satisfaction Still Runs High; Strategic Business Use Of SOA Is Still Increasing

The IT industry is continuing its strong adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), according to Forrester's latest survey data. A year ago, our data highlighted a general slowness in moving...

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Report:Process-Views-Services: A Better Design Paradigm For Applications

Step Aside, Model-View-Controller — PVS Must Take Center Stage

It is time for a major shift in the top-level design model for applications. Model-view-controller (MVC) has been the dominant framework for tying together the user interface and business logic of an...

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Report:Five Trends That Will Shape The EA Profession In 2008

In 2008, enterprise architects will find themselves at the center of a struggle to change their organizations into significantly more agile enterprises. As solution delivery morphs from traditional...

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Report:CA's Standalone SOA Management Solution Has The Deepest Visibility Into Java And .NET Services

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

In our Forrester Wave™ analysis of standalone service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services management solutions, CA's solution rates within our Strong Performer category when...

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